Lydia Baker
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Biography
Lydia Baker is an American painter whose work blends abstraction and figuration to explore memory, emotion, and personal history. Using layered paint and gestural brushwork, Baker creates compositions that are both intimate and expressive.
Her work has been exhibited in galleries across the U.S., contributing to the evolving dialogue on contemporary painting.
Keepers of the Night, 2022
colored pencil and wax pastel on paper, 44"H x 30"W
Midsummer, 2021
colored pencil on paper, 15"H x 20"W
Matriarch I, 2021
monotype on Kitakata paper, 20.5"H x 17"W
She's Not Heavy, She's My Sister, 2020
Colored pencil on hand-painted Fabriano paper, 22"H x 30"W
Grey Water, 2020
Monotype & hand-coloring on Mulberry paper, 12"H x 9"W
Thicket, 2021
monotype, wax pastel and colored pencil, 18"H x 24"W
I Can Hear Music, 2020
Monotype & hand-coloring on Masa paper, 13"H x 17"W
Strawberry Legs, 2020
Colored pencil on Rives BFK paper, 30"H x 22"W
Matriarch II, 2021
monotype on Kitakata paper, 20.5"H x 17"W
Heat Wave, 2021
Monotype, colored pencil & wax pastel on Awagami paper, 18"H x 14"W
Sea Fruit, 2020
Monotype on Masa paper, 15.5"H x 21"W
They Found Grace In The Soil, 2020
Colored pencil on Rives BFK paper, 22"H x 30"W
Another Day, 2021
colored pencil on paper, 40"H x 30"W
Tale of Two Mountains V, 2021
Monotype, colored pencil & wax pastel on Stonehenge paper, 18"H x 14"W
Lily Pad III, 2021
monotype with hand-coloring on Awagami paper, 20.5"H x 17"W
Tale of Two Mountains IV, 2021
Monotype, colored pencil, & wax pastel on Stonehenge paper, 18"H x 14"W
Study (for Cog in the Wheel), 2021
colored pencil on paper, 14"H x 26"W
The Wedding, 2020
Colored pencil & watercolor on Fabriano paper, 18"H x 14"W
Matriarch IV, 2021
monotype on Kitakata paper, 20.5"H x 17"W
Dancing In Bluish Light, 2020
Monotype on Masa paper, 13"H x 10"W
Matriarch III, 2021
monotype on Kitakata paper, 20.5"H x 17"W
Putrefaction, 2020
Colored pencil on Fabriano paper, 25"H x 19.5"W